One death, nine stories
By: edited by Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Somerville, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780763652852
Subjects: Teenage boys; Suicide; Death; Short stories; Teenagers; Fiction
Description: How could one teenage boy's life elicit other kids' first experiences -- even after he dies?. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two altar boys (and one altar girl) might get up to at the cemetery. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job -- at the mortuary. Will Weaver turns a lens on Kevin's sister as she collects his surprising effects -- and makes good use of them. Here, in nine stories, we meet people who didn't know Kevin, friends from his childhood, his ex-girlfriend, his best friend, all dealing with the fallout of his death. Being a teenager is a time for all kinds of firsts -- first jobs, first loves, first good-byes, firsts that break your heart and awaken your soul. It's an initiation of sorts, and it can be brutal. But on the other side of it is the rest of your life.
Notes: Young Adult.

720 Lexile.
Table of contents: title: Down below / Rita Williams-Garcia; title: Initiation / Ellen Hopkins; title: Just once / A.S. King; title: The next next level / Torrey Maldonado; title: Running man / Charles R. Smith Jr.; title: Making up the dead / Nora Raleigh Baskin; title: Two-a-days / Chris Barton; title: I have a gun / Will Weaver; title: Connections / Marina Budhos.